In eight days and 52 tweets, Dantonio's Twitter following has shot up to 5,406.

While that's a relatively modest number of followers for a Division I football coach, it's certainly a factor that the Spartans are in their offseason and very little, if anything, has been done to promote Dantonio's Twitter presence.

Like everything else about the Michigan State head coach, the Twitter account comes off as genuine.

"Yes, I do do my own tweeting,'' Dantonio said. "Actually my oldest daughter set me up Saturday (February 2). We started with that, and I sent out a tweet. But I'm going to do my own, nobody will do it for me. We'll go from there. We'll hope to be positive. Do social media positively.

"I think there is‑‑ obviously there's some information that you can gather from there, and I think it's a way that you can get your message out. Here I am. Welcome to the real world.''